Improvement in hasps for trunk-locks



E. L. GAYLORD.

improvement in -Hasps for Trunk-Locks.

l .N0.130,210. Patented Aug.` 6,1872.

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M@ imi@ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD L. GAYLORD, OF BRIDGEPOBT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN HASPS FOR TRUNK-LOCKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,210, dated AugustG, 1872.

Specification describing a new and useful Improvement in Trunk-LockHasps, invented by EDWARD L. GAYLoRD, of Bridgeport, in the county ofFairlield and State ot`Connecticut.

Figure l is a detail view of the inner side of my improved hasp. Fig. 2is an edge View of the same, partly in section, through the line c' x,Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view of the same taken through theline y y, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved hasp fortrunk-locks which shall be simple in' construction and convenient inmanufacture, and so constructed as to hold the hasp out, so that, shouldthe trunk-lid fall accidentally, the hasp cannot strike against the edgeof the trunk-body and be broken, bent, or injured; and it consists inthe combination of the spring and plate with the hasp and slottedhasp-plate, as hereinafter more fully described.

A is the hasp-plate, which is made with an inwardly-projecting iiangearound its edges, and is secured to the forward side of the trunklid byscrews or nails in the ordinary manner. The forward or lower middle partofthe hasp- `plate A is cut away to receive the hasp B, vand hasa slotformed in it parallel with and at a little distance from the inner edgeof thesaid notch or cut, thus leaving a strip or bar, a', of the saidhasp-plate for the hasp B to be hinged to. The upper edge ot' the hasp Bis flanged, Which iiange passes through the slot of the hasp-plate A,and to it is riveted the edge of the plate C, which passes over the bara', is bent outward along the edge of the bar af, and its edge, or lugsformed upon its edge, is riveted to the body of the hasp B. D is a bentspring placed in the space between the bar a and the hasp B, as shown inFig. 3, and which, by its elasticity, holds the hasp B out, as shown inFig. 2, the ends oi the said spring resting against lian ges formed uponthe side edges of the hasp B, as shown in Fig. 3, to keep the spring inplace.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The combination 0i' the spring D and plate C with thebar a of the slotted hasp-plate A, and with the hasp B, substantially asherein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

. EDWARD L. GAYLORD.

. iVitnesses:

JAuEs T. GRAHAM. T. B. MosHER.

